Re: Permissions on CHECKPOINT

> Tom Lane wrote:
>   >Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
>   >> Mikheev, Vadim writes:
>   >>> Yes, there should be permission checking - I'll add it later (in 7.1)
>   >>> if no one else.
>   >
>   >> Should be simple enough.  Is this okay:
>   >
>   >Actually, I think a more interesting question is "should CHECKPOINT
>   >have permission restrictions?  If so, what should they be?"
>   >
>   >A quite relevant precedent is that Unix systems (at least the ones
>   >I've used) do not restrict who can call sync().
> 
> What about DoS attacks?  What would be the effect of someone's setting
> off an infinite loop of CHECKPOINTs?

Don't we have bigger DoS attacks?  Certainly SELECT cash_out(1) is a
much bigger one.

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